Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"The Man Who Ploughed the Sea\" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957. The story within a story is narrated by Harry Purvis, who recalls a holiday spent submarining off of the Florida Keys. While there, he happens to witness a meeting between two wealthy and talented scientists, one of whom has designed a method to extract trace elements from seawater. He trades his secret to the other in exchange for the other's fancy yacht, but it turns out that the process is not yet commercially viable. The piece was later published as the tenth story in Clarke's collection Tales from the White Hart. Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the collection as \"as light and frothy a conglomeration of sidesplitters as it has been my good fortune to read.\""@en }
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- The_Man_Who_Ploughed_the_Sea abstract "\"The Man Who Ploughed the Sea\" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957. The story within a story is narrated by Harry Purvis, who recalls a holiday spent submarining off of the Florida Keys. While there, he happens to witness a meeting between two wealthy and talented scientists, one of whom has designed a method to extract trace elements from seawater. He trades his secret to the other in exchange for the other's fancy yacht, but it turns out that the process is not yet commercially viable. The piece was later published as the tenth story in Clarke's collection Tales from the White Hart. Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the collection as \"as light and frothy a conglomeration of sidesplitters as it has been my good fortune to read.\"".